For the second time in a week, the Washington offices of a prominent American poll taker advising the Israeli Labor Party have been burglarized, and Labor campaign files were once again stolen. Late Monday or early Tuesday morning, thieves entered through a second-floor window into the offices of the poll taker and consultant, Stanley Greenberg, Labor Party officials and Washington police said. In Israel last week, four Labor Party campaign workers for Ehud Barak reported...

Esther Polishuck Zackler was a leader of the progressive wing of the Zionist movement who spent her life supporting Israel and nurturing its families. Born and raised in Chicago, Mrs. Zackler was past national president of Na'amat USA, the Women's Labor Zionist Organization of America, formerly known as Pioneer Women. Mrs. Zackler, 86, of Lincolnwood, died of a stroke Saturday, Aug. 14, in St. Francis Hospital, Evanston. Her mother, Channa Polishuck, had founded Pioneer Women in Chicago...

Libya has invited a senior Israeli politician to visit, European Commission President Romano Prodi said after meeting Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Monday. In Tel Aviv, the Israeli Labor Party, the largest member of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's ruling coalition, confirmed that its secretary general, Raanan Cohen, had received an official invitation to visit the North African country. Libya has no relations with the Jewish state and has been among the Arab countries most fiercely...

The Israeli Labor Party announced on Tuesday that it would not join a government headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon if he wins the elections on Jan. 28, dimming prospects that a stable ruling coalition could be formed after the vote. "We will not be in a government led by Sharon, period," Amram Mitzna, the Labor leader and its candidate for prime minister, said at party headquarters in Tel Aviv. "It's us or him. Anyone who doesn't vote Labor is voting for Sharon." The declaration apparently...

The White House gave a strong vote of confidence Tuesday to Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese despite disclosure of a confidential memo that raised questions about his role in a plan to construct an Iraqi oil pipeline. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said President Reagan does not intend to ask Meese, an aide and friend since Reagan's days as governor of California, to step down as the nation's top law enforcement official. "The President has full confidence in the attorney general and absolutely...

Libya has invited a senior Israeli politician to visit, European Commission President Romano Prodi said after meeting Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Monday. In Tel Aviv, the Israeli Labor Party, the largest member of Prime Minister Ehud Barak's ruling coalition, confirmed that its secretary general, Raanan Cohen, had received an official invitation to visit the North African country. Libya has no relations with the Jewish state and has been among the Arab countries most fiercely...

Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese said Sunday that he will not resign in the face of mounting allegations that he knew about a possible plan to pay the Israeli Labor Party in return for an Israeli pledge not to sabotage a proposed $1 billion Iraqi pipeline. Meese said his resignation would hurt President Reagan too much and would undermine the cause of "good government." Meese was responding to new allegations, revealed Sunday by the Washington Post, that he and an attorney friend briefed Shimon Peres...

It was a politician's nightmare. Adissu Messele, an Ethiopian immigrant, burst onto the stage of a festive Labor Party convention Tuesday, grabbed the microphone and told party leader Ehud Barak, standing next to him, that he was a racist--all on live prime-time television. Messele was angry because he had narrowly lost a spot on Labor's slate of candidates for parliament to a Russian immigrant and accused the party of fraud. Barak's promise of a recount did nothing to...

By Jeff Gerth with Philip Shenon, New York Times News Service | July 10, 1988

New information about the involvement of Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese in a number of matters under investigation is included in portions of special prosecutor James McKay's report that were obtained Friday by the New York Times. Among other disclosures, the report shows that Meese gave federal investigators differing recollections of his knowledge about plans for an Iraqi pipeline project. In a sworn deposition in November, 1987, Meese indicated he understood that the Israeli Labor Party was...

For the second time in a week, the Washington offices of a prominent American poll taker advising the Israeli Labor Party have been burglarized, and Labor campaign files were once again stolen. Late Monday or early Tuesday morning, thieves entered through a second-floor window into the offices of the poll taker and consultant, Stanley Greenberg, Labor Party officials and Washington police said. In Israel last week, four Labor Party campaign workers for Ehud Barak reported...

The White House gave a strong vote of confidence Tuesday to Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese in the wake of the release of a memo to Meese that raised new questions about his conduct concerning the planned construction of an Iraqi oil pipeline in Jordan. A 1985 memo to Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese said the Israeli Labor Party led by then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres would share in up to $700 million in profits if Peres pledged that Israel would not sabotage construction of an oil pipeline in Iraq.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just came to Washington, and saw, and left--and nothing was accomplished. Funny. Vice President Al Gore just went all the way to China, and saw, and came home--and virtually nothing was accomplished. Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin came recently, too, along with Jordan's King Hussein and a host of others--and little was accomplished there, either. It's an odd way to run the "only superpower" and the "indispensable nation,"...

The Israeli Labor Party announced on Tuesday that it would not join a government headed by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon if he wins the elections on Jan. 28, dimming prospects that a stable ruling coalition could be formed after the vote. "We will not be in a government led by Sharon, period," Amram Mitzna, the Labor leader and its candidate for prime minister, said at party headquarters in Tel Aviv. "It's us or him. Anyone who doesn't vote Labor is voting for Sharon." The declaration apparently...

Standing on a bluff here on the edge of the West Bank Tuesday, his back to Tel Aviv and Israel's coastal plain just a few miles to the west, Deputy Minister Roni Milo shook his fist as he warned: "If, God forbid, the Labor Party wins and gives this back, from here the PLO could endanger our families, our children-our lives-every day." The Israeli Labor Party opened its election campaign on Monday promising to give up parts of the occupied West Bank. On Tuesday the opposition...

Standing on a bluff here on the edge of the West Bank Tuesday, his back to Tel Aviv and Israel's coastal plain just a few miles to the west, Deputy Minister Roni Milo shook his fist as he warned: "If, God forbid, the Labor Party wins and gives this back, from here the PLO could endanger our families, our children-our lives-every day." The Israeli Labor Party opened its election campaign on Monday promising to give up parts of the occupied West Bank. On Tuesday the opposition...

By Jeff Gerth with Philip Shenon, New York Times News Service | July 10, 1988

New information about the involvement of Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese in a number of matters under investigation is included in portions of special prosecutor James McKay's report that were obtained Friday by the New York Times. Among other disclosures, the report shows that Meese gave federal investigators differing recollections of his knowledge about plans for an Iraqi pipeline project. In a sworn deposition in November, 1987, Meese indicated he understood that the Israeli Labor Party was...

The White House gave a strong vote of confidence Tuesday to Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese despite disclosure of a confidential memo that raised questions about his role in a plan to construct an Iraqi oil pipeline. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said President Reagan does not intend to ask Meese, an aide and friend since Reagan's days as governor of California, to step down as the nation's top law enforcement official. "The President has full confidence in the attorney general...

Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese said Sunday that he will not resign in the face of mounting allegations that he knew about a possible plan to pay the Israeli Labor Party in return for an Israeli pledge not to sabotage a proposed $1 billion Iraqi pipeline. Meese said his resignation would hurt President Reagan too much and would undermine the cause of "good government." Meese was responding to new allegations, revealed Sunday by the Washington Post, that he and an attorney friend briefed Shimon Peres...

Esther Polishuck Zackler was a leader of the progressive wing of the Zionist movement who spent her life supporting Israel and nurturing its families. Born and raised in Chicago, Mrs. Zackler was past national president of Na'amat USA, the Women's Labor Zionist Organization of America, formerly known as Pioneer Women. Mrs. Zackler, 86, of Lincolnwood, died of a stroke Saturday, Aug. 14, in St. Francis Hospital, Evanston. Her mother, Channa Polishuck, had founded Pioneer Women in Chicago...

The White House gave a strong vote of confidence Tuesday to Atty. Gen. Edwin Meese despite disclosure of a confidential memo that raised questions about his role in a plan to construct an Iraqi oil pipeline. Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said President Reagan does not intend to ask Meese, an aide and friend since Reagan's days as governor of California, to step down as the nation's top law enforcement official. "The President has full confidence in the attorney general and absolutely...